strange flvplayer problems

March 20, 2007 at 7:52 pm · Filed under code, videos

Playing around with flv player yesterday I came across an odd problem.

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Using flvplayer to play a flv file on my machine worked fine. As soon as I uploaded it to a server (infact in this case it was my localhost – but same thing really) it no longer played.

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Under IIS 6.0, microsoft changed the way they handle flv files. Heres the article by adobe on how to fix the problem with iis. The way to fix is to add the .flv extension as a MIME type on iis.

The way I found to do this best (as it was on my local server) was to go to IIS and then the Default Web Site, right click on properties, then go to the HTTPHeaders tab. On the bottom click on File Types and in there add the following:

Associated Extension: flv

Content Type (MIME): flv-application/oclet-stream

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But it didn’t.

Here’s the markup I’m using for embeding:

<object data=”mcpassets/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” height=”600″ width=”600″>

<paramvalue=”file=assets/video/pete.flv&image=assets/video/pete_thumb.jpg” name=”flashvars” />

<param name=”movie”value=”mcpassets/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?file=assets/video/pete.flv&image=assets/video/pete_thumb.jpg” />

<object>

Now while this showed the thumbnail, the